By Hugh Fitzgerald  |  Sept 17, 2024

For nearly a year, 60,000 Israelis living in the north have had to leave their homes because of constant rockets and drones launched by Hezbollah in Lebanon. The social and economic disruption has been considerable, even more than that from the continued displacement in the south of 40,000 Israelis on the Jewish state’s s border with Gaza. Defense Minister Yoav Gallant has said that the IDF, having destroyed so much of Hamas, should now turn its full attention to the north, and the threat from Hezbollah. Prime Minister Netanyahu, while recognizing that the situation in the north “cannot continue,” still appears to want to finish the job of dismantling Hamas in Gaza before moving on to deal forcefully with Hezbollah. More on Netanyahu’s view of the northern front can be found here: “Situation in North can’t continue, Netanyahu says ahead of Hochstein visit,” by Tovah Lazaroff, Jerusalem Post, September 15, 2024:

The cross-border violence between the IDF and Hezbollah in the North of the country “cannot continue,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said ahead of a meeting with US special envoy Amos Hochstein on Monday.

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The ears have it

J.E. Dyer, a retired Naval Intelligence officer, blogs as The Optimistic Conservative, Sept 15, 2024

Feature image: Affordable housing. Pexels.

Let’s listen with our ears.

Pundits have been complaining in the last few days, somewhat understandably, that even under direct questioning, candidate Harris has failed to address what she would do about rampant inflation.

But she has, in fact, addressed the question.  She’s given an answer we need have no uncertainty about – or unclarity, for that matter.

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?BREAKING: In a rare, unscripted interview, VP Kamala Harris proudly states that she was “entirely supportive of” “the pause on 2000 lb bombs” to Israel to act as “leverage” to force a cease fire against Hamas.

Later, she blamed Israel for the death of American hostage Hirsch… pic.twitter.com/fY79VxmwpH

— Houman David Hemmati, MD, PhD (@houmanhemmati) September 17, 2024

Peloni:  The fraud can’t fail the laugh test, at least not by everyone.  So will RFK play the role which  Barr & and other presumed Trump stalwarts played in the aftermath of 2020 as these Trump ‘allies’ revealed their true role in the 2020 campaign was in supporting the fraud which was evident from election night onward?  As RFK notably raised claims of election fraud during the 2004 election, his continued silence on the much better established and significantly evidenced election fraud of 2020 makes Sundance’s conjecture all the more compelling to consider.

Sundance | Sept 17, 2024

We will be outlining some data and research analysis to help further spotlight the current dynamic.  In the interim there is value in considering one specific facet of the 2024 election mechanisms, PLAUSIBILITY.

There will be attempts to interject ballot fraud into the 2024 election, specifically from key regions which have increasingly been accepted as labeled, the Clyburn network.  For the activist leadership on the Obama/Clyburn side of the system, the issue of plausibility is a serious point of discussion.

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Hezbollah, a highly trained and disciplined terrorist group, is now facing chaos and vulnerability after a large number of its members were injured by exploding communication devices.

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN | SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Hezbollah members in Lebanon take part in a funeral procession for their comrade Akram Sadek Hourani, who was killed in the recent battles in Syria’s Qalamoun region. (credit: REUTERS)

Hezbollah is known as a disciplined group. Highly trained, the group invests heavily in its recruits. It is not known to waste them as cannon fodder. It views itself as an elite organization, and within its own structure, there are centers of terrorist excellence, such as the Radwan force.

Hezbollah has achieved this through decades of fine-tuning its capabilities. It has built itself up slowly, first in the 1980s and then in the last two decades as it came to dominate Lebanon. Now, the group faces its worst nightmare: Chaos.

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by Norman Berdichevsky

Since then, Israel has been constantly in the news and with the passage of time subjected to the growing myth never challenged by the media, that the United States was wholly or largely responsible for fully supporting Israel on the ground from the very beginning, a claim that is without any foundation in fact. However, it was actually not until the administration of President John Kennedy in the early 1960s that any American arms shipments were made to Israel.

Soviet Diplomatic Support

The struggle of the Jewish community in Palestine was endorsed completely by what was then called “enlightened public opinion,” above all by the political Left. At the UN, Andrei Gromyko asserted the right of “the Jews of the whole world to the creation of a state of their own,” something no official of the U.S. State Department has ever acknowledged. Soviet support in the U.N. for partition brought along an additional two votes (the Ukrainian and Bielorussian Republics within the USSR) and the entire Soviet dominated block of East European states.

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Peloni:  A brilliantly exercised assault on the enemy at the brink of war – simple yet highly disruptive to any attempt at coordinating either further assaults or even any defense of the many Hezbollah units scattered across Southern Lebanon. Hence, Hezbollah must now find a new means of communicating, obtaining the new devices and distributing them to all their various members amid the onset of war. Well, it is not likely that Israel will allow them the time to do any of this – as Gen. Avivi noted, war is immanent.  It would be ironic if Nassrallah came to his senses and used his next post-Friday prayer announcement to call all his minions North of the Litani so that they could collect their new cellular devices which they could use til Israel chose to blow those up as well…ironic indeed.  And let us not overlook the psychological warfare aspect of this victory as well.

Hezbollah’s Strategic Communications Shut Dow

Stephen Bryen | Weapons & Stategy | Sept 17, 2024

Encrypted pagers used by Hezbollah and their sponsors in Lebanon and Syria simultaneously started exploding earlier today, September 17.

This was the backbone of Hezbollah and Iranian communications in Lebanon and Syria.  It has now been destroyed along with wounding at least 1,000 Hezbollah and Iranians connected with them, including Iran’s ambassador to Lebanon.  We will probably learn more about how many pagers exploded in the coming days.

There is now video of some of the pagers exploding and video of hospitals crowded with wounded.

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Peloni:  A must watch video by Mike Benz discussing the Deep State ties with the would be Trump assassin, Ryan Routh.

15 mins of fire, deep down the rabbit hole of Ryan Routh

My hit on War Room today w/ @nataliegwinters pic.twitter.com/62RU08th1W

— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) September 17, 2024

Peloni:  While Iran flexes its proxy army tentacles against Israel, the Mullahs continue to face no threat, no concern, and no consequence for having done so.  This policy on the part of Israel must change, and until it does, Iran will continue to fight to the last minion of its proxy armies, even as it remains vulnerable but unscathed for these attacks.  Indeed, Israel must demonstrate to the world and Iran remains assailable, that their vulnerabilities are significant, and that for every assault emanating from their minions against the Israeli people will result in a direct response being visited upon the Mullahs themselves.

“The Israeli Security Cabinet has Unanimously Voted tonight to Approve the War Goals against Hezbollah in Southern Lebanon, which will allow the return of Residents to their Homes in Northern Israel” – OSINTdefender

Seth J. Frantzman| Sept 16,2024

Amos Hochstein, a senior advisor to President Joe Biden, held meetings with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant on September 16. The meetings happened a day after Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen launched a long-range missile at central Israel. They also came amid rising tensions between Hezbollah and Israel and a push for Israel to launch a military operation to clear the Iranian-backed group from Israel’s northern border.

Netanyahu met with Hochstein in Tel Aviv at the Kirya, the site of Israel’s Ministry of Defense, and discussed Hezbollah’s threat. “The Prime Minister made it very clear that it will not be possible to return our residents without a fundamental change in the security situation in the north,” a statement from Netanyahu’s office noted. Netanyahu said Israel would do what is necessary to protect its security and bring back the 60,000 Israelis who have been evacuated since Hezbollah began its attacks on Israel last October.

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T. Belman. The problem is that the State Department has been consistantly pro Arab and anti-Israel for 100 years. Gil-White is focused on the fact that Trump can’t change that. The best he can do is to ignore them and do what he can to help Israel, just as he did when he was President.

Peloni:  The one point which I disagree with Gil-White is on Trump, who he shades as being part of the same anti-Israel power bosses in the US. By his own standard of following the facts on the ground, this has little support.  The only part of Trump’s foreign policy which might support such a premise was the continued funding for Lebanon despite the violations of UNSC 1701 and 1559, funding which was quietly agreed to after significant deliberation.  This was a serious setback, which strongly contrasted with all of Trump’s other policies in the region, but I would argue that this was clearly the exception to Trump’s regional policy in the Middle East rather than demonstrative of them, and the attempt to push it through without any fanfare or explanation would seem to support this fact all the more.

Peloni:  The Kursk offensive will come to be seen as harmful to Ukraine as Operation Michael was to Germany during WWI, even as Operation Michael had a strategic potential which the Kursk offensive has always lacked.  Indeed, the sliding objectives and consumption of men and resources to support an infiltration which depleted an army with no potential force generation against an opponent, whose force generation is not only substantial but increasing with time, would seem to be little more than another pyrrhic victory in Ukraine’s campaign to kill as many Russians with little to no regard for the sanctity, security or survival of her own people and nation.  A good lesson from which all other nations should watch and learn.

See Translation below Tweet.  Also see translation of the source Tweet which Herzog references about scandal enveloping the family of Rania/Abdullah’s son-in-law.

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Peloni:  Important update.  General Avivi addresses the reality that winter is coming and this will have a negative impact on Israel while benefitting Hezbollah.  Also, he acknowledges that war in the North sooner rather than later will delay the conclusion of the the war in Gaza and may affect the hostages diliteriously.  Despite all of this, however, he asserts that it is imperative for Israel to strike Lebanon now, before Winter, and before the High Holidays, and that with every day which delays this move places Israel in a more and more difficult scenario in which to deal with the threat in the North.   He also shares that among the strategies which are being contemplated by the IDF is the use of a siege of norther Gaza, withholding food and water from those who refuse to move south.

FaJaJ INTELLIGENCE  September 16, 2024

T. Belman: If Netanyahu doesn’t accomodate him, he would drive him into the ranks of Bennett who  is challenging Netanyahu with a coalition of Liberman and Sa’ar and others.

IMRA  said : “Thanks to his very active participation in the Knesset Subcommittee on Intelligence, Secret Services, and POWs/MIAs, civilian MK Gideon Sa’ar is up to speed to take the position of defense minister.”

Contacts between Sa’ar and Netanyahu significantly closer. Discussions on options for ministerial appointments. All offices say: ‘There is nothing to report.’

Hezki Baruch    Sep 16, 2024, 

Gidon Sa’ar and Yoav GallantYonatan Sindel/Flash90

Gideon Sa’ar is on the verge of joining the government: Sa’ar’s advisors and Netanyahu’s advisors have been holding intense talks in the last day, including through the night. Sa’ar hopes to get the security portfolio and that is what the main talks between him and Netanyahu are about.

Channel 12 News reported that all members of the New Hope party are expected to receive positions in the government. Ze’ev Elkin will be the minister responsible for the Tkuma Administration in the north and south, and will receive an additional portfolio from Shas – possibly the Ministry of Health. MK Sharren Haskel is due to get the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Michal Buskila will head a Knesset committee.

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T. Belman: Just like they pushed Israel to give part of her gas fields to Hezbollah.

Making deals with Islamic terrorists doesn’t work

by Daniel Greenfield, GATESTONE  •  September 16, 2024 at 5:00 am